[hobbit] Configuration database backend.

[Stef Coene]

On Friday 08 December 2006 21:53, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 04:32:46PM +0100, Stef Coene wrote:
> > On Friday 08 December 2006 13:39, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> > > > Hendrik, can you confirm that the config files are compliant with the
> > > > ini-style of config files ?
> > > > If so, parsing with perl is easy.  If not, maybe we can make them
> > > > compliant.
> > >
> > > Uhm, no - I don't think they are.
> >
> > And what about switching to ini-style config files in the next version? 
> > I don't know (but I'm sure there is) if a ini-file library exist for C. 
> > It exists for perl and it's very easy to parse and even generate config
> > files.
>
> The problem is that these configs don't match ini-style files. With
> ini-files, you have only one possible selection criteria - the name of
> the section in the ini-file. But the client- and alert-configuration
> uses lots of different criteria - you can use hostnames to control who
> gets an alert, but you can also use testnames, or time-of-day, or the
> page the host is on, or just the color of the status. Ini-style
> configuration cannot cope with this - at least, I cannot imagine how.
Noted.  I just took a quick look at the function load_alertconfig. Pfffff.  I 
think I will have to trust you about the ini format.


Stef